As a result of his Tampa Palms Psychology — the observe of Brian Wilson, Ph.D. — continues to develop, Dr. Wilson lately moved to the Tampa Palms Skilled Heart off of Commerce Palms Blvd. simply south and west of the Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. exit off I-75.
The brand new workplace is only a half-mile from his earlier workspace, the place sufferers met with Dr. Wilson in a personal room at a co-working workplace. He made the transfer to the brand new area in April.
“It’s a really quiet, heat, upscale and stress-free setting, proper on a lake,” Dr. Wilson says, including that whereas he loved his earlier location and the chance it gave him to develop, it’s good to have a extra private and everlasting area.
“I’ve my very own devoted workplace now,” he says. “I designed it myself. It’s a greater area, with higher furnishings, and far homier.”
He says he’s had his eye on the Tampa Palms Skilled Heart for a few years, however when he opened his observe in 2021, the Covid pandemic made digital or Telehealth periods the norm, as a substitute of in-person visits, so it didn’t make sense for him to have a full-time workplace at the moment.
Now, many individuals favor to satisfy with Dr. Wilson in individual, though he says about half of his sufferers nonetheless select to satisfy just about. “I let my sufferers resolve,” he says. “Some suppliers are insisting on in-person and others on Telehealth, however I do no matter works for my sufferers.”
He says he has some sufferers who’re disabled or produce other the reason why they’ll’t go away the home, so he’s blissful to satisfy with them through non-public, safe videoconferencing.
Dr. Wilson has been training since 2003 and now has twenty years of expertise. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) diploma in Psychology from the College of Florida in Gainesville and earned each his Grasp of Science and Ph.D. levels from the College of North Dakota in Grand Forks. He additionally accomplished a psychology residency on the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Hospital.
Whether or not you meet him in individual or on-line, Dr. Wilson helps adults navigate life’s difficulties, particularly relating to job stress, relationship issues, despair, nervousness, or any variety of different points.
“I get pleasure from having labored in quite a lot of settings, so I really feel snug taking up loads of issues,” he says. He considers himself to be a generalist who can tackle all kinds of considerations with adults. He doesn’t, nonetheless, counsel anybody beneath the age of 18.
He generally helps people who find themselves experiencing PTSD (post-traumatic stress dysfunction) and has years of expertise serving to navy veterans.
Dr. Wilson is also skilled in serving to those that have severe or life-changing medical points and are studying to deal with a brand new actuality, in addition to the psychological well being issues that develop because of this.
One other space of experience for Dr. Wilson is geriatrics — serving to older adults. This could possibly be people who find themselves caring for a partner who’s sick, or those that are realizing that the transition into retirement isn’t what they thought it will be.
His twenty years of expertise embrace major care and neighborhood psychological well being, psychiatric sufferers in psychological well being amenities, residential and outpatient PTSD therapy, geriatric psychological well being and well being psychology. Dr. Wilson is licensed to observe psychology in each Florida and Minnesota, and is a member of the American Psychological Affiliation.
He says the most effective strategy for many who are starting the seek for a trusted therapist remains to be to get a advice from a pal or member of the family. “That’s most likely the most effective referral you will get,” he says.
However in the event you don’t have a word-of-mouth reference from somebody you realize, he says to do a web based search, select a number of therapists, attempt to discuss to a couple of them and “go together with your intestine.”
He says that, after all, it’s best to all the time test with the Florida Division of Well being to make sure the supplier you need to work with is appropriately licensed and has no disciplinary actions or malpractice claims.
This may be carried out by looking “Florida Division of Well being License Lookup” on-line.
“Past that, these of us [practitioners] who’re considerate will all the time be blissful to schedule a no-charge, no-commitment cellphone name to see if we’re match,” he says. “Don’t schedule with somebody with out not less than first having a dialog about their strategy.”
Whereas Dr. Wilson says he’s primarily a non-public pay supplier, he does settle for sufferers with unique Medicare and can present a receipt to anybody who must submit an out-of-network receipt to their insurance coverage firm. He says some insurance coverage firms, however not all, will cowl about 50 % of the price of therapy.
Fellow skilled therapist Dr. Brian Doane of Tampa Bay Counseling Companies is fast to say that he thinks very extremely of Dr. Wilson and doesn’t hesitate to suggest him — for instance, if he has a affected person whose partner wants counseling, too.
“If I’m working with somebody and so they say, ‘My partner is on the lookout for a therapist,’ he’s the primary individual I ship them to,” Dr. Doane says, noting that it’s an necessary referral, since Dr. Doane will proceed working with that individual’s partner and has a vested curiosity in each events getting good assist.
“Dr. Wilson is tremendous compassionate, very moral, and all of the issues that you really want in a therapist,” Dr. Doane says. “He additionally has a very nice steadiness between being very form and compassionate, whereas additionally being assertively direct. He additionally is aware of the timing of when to be direct, offering sincere suggestions at a time when the individual is ready to obtain it.”
Tampa Palms Psychology is positioned at 5331 Primrose Lake Cir., Suite 245, within the Tampa Palms Skilled Heart. For appointments with Dr. Brian Wilson and extra details about the observe, name (813) 491- 9343 or go to TampaPalmsPsychology.com.
